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Just a quick usual disclaimer for whenever I do Italian cooking here – if your beloved Grandma from the sun-scorched hills in Umbria (or wherever) did this differently, this is not an attempt to cast spells on your family 😉 … Continue reading →

Travelling, travelling again, … sooner or later, you let your firm grip of the Email inbox slip that little bit. That has a nasty habit of suddenly catching up with you when you finally get back. And that’s when you … Continue reading →

But before we go there, I need to apologise for the absence of the Monday thing – or at least explain why it didn’t happen. See, I’ve been away… (“No sh*t, Sherlock”, I hear someone say 😉 ) I’ve been … Continue reading →

As you have been able to see – or, rather, not see – I have not been publishing the last few Mondays. Two times a full week of travelling sort of got in the way. I have a small, real-life story … Continue reading →

All I wanted was to dance Not the oblivion kind of dance Where you drown in the rhythm And sing the songs And forget all about the day and the days before that And those following Not the sweet hunting kind … Continue reading →

Let me say it as it is: this is going to be a disappointing post in terms of valuable traveller tips – at least if you are based in an SAS country. The point of the article was – because it is … Continue reading →

Just home from a short vacation with my wife and two friends – as the previous post suggests, we were in Istanbul. I have had the joy of being there several times – it is a wonderful, many-facetted, complivated, beautiful, … Continue reading →

No, you did not read “bikini” – biking, as in bicycling! And man, it was about time. Last year, I started my version of interval training – biking to work in the summer, not in the winter – already … Continue reading →

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